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diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a1b30d45459..61d38067803 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -394,6 +394,28 @@ out:
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * On ia64 at least, it is possible to receive a hugetlb fault from a
+ * stale zero entry left in the TLB from earlier hardware prefetching.
+ * Low-level arch code should already have flushed the stale entry as
+ * part of its fault handling, but we do need to accept this minor fault
+ * and return successfully. Whereas the "normal" case is that this is
+ * an access to a hugetlb page which has been truncated off since mmap.
+ */
+int hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long address, int write_access)
+{
+ int ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
+ pte_t *pte;
+
+ spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+ pte = huge_pte_offset(mm, address);
+ if (pte && !pte_none(*pte))
+ ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
+ spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+ return ret;
+}
+
int follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas,
unsigned long *position, int *length, int i)